Passageways depicts the layered experience of embodiment, decorating figures with their surroundings to hint at their abilities and strangeness. The body is emphasized as an energetic mediator; a passageway between tangible and non-tangible spaces, one that can manifests ideas, movements, thoughts, memories and other vibrations. The artwork aims to re-interpret the body within an imaginative framework and open it up to symbols that are expansive; building towards an imaginative-poetic-visual language to visualize buried and potential new ideas.

The first fifteen arrivals to the opening reception will be eligible for to win raffle prizes, including a copy of the artist’s most recent artbook “Passageways”!

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Eli Howey is an artist and cartoonist based in Toronto. They use watercolour and gouache to create hand-painted art comics and large-scale works on paper. Their artwork aims to reinterpret the body within an imaginative framework and open it up to symbols that are expansive, building towards an imaginative-poetic-visual language to visualize buried and potential new ideas. The stories they create attempt to go beyond what can be seen by incorporating the emotional/imagined spaces within environments and narratives.

Their recent work explores embodiment, depicting overlapping dimensions of sensory information. Human figures are decorated by their surroundings, hinting at their strangeness and abilities. There is an emphasis on the body as an energetic mediator; a passageway between tangible and non-tangible spaces that can manifests ideas, movements, thoughts, memories and other vibrations.